The 10 Commandments in Scripture

 

 

Exodus 20

 

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 you shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers' wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;
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but bestowing mercy down to the thousandth generation, on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments.
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"You shall not take the name of the LORD, your God, in vain. For the LORD will not leave unpunished him who takes his name in vain.
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"Remember to keep holy the sabbath day.
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Six days you may labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD, your God. No work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you.
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In six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the LORD has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
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"Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long life in the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you.
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"You shall not kill.
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"You shall not commit adultery.
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"You shall not steal.
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"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
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"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass, nor anything else that belongs to him."

 

 

LIBER EXODUS 20

 

5 Non adorabis ea neque coles, quia ego sum Dominus Deus tuus, Deus zelotes, visitans iniquitatem patrum in filiis in tertiam et quartam generationem eorum, qui oderunt me,
6 et faciens misericordiam in milia his, qui diligunt me et custodiunt praecepta mea.
7 Non assumes nomen Domini Dei tui in vanum, nec enim habebit insontem Dominus eum, qui assumpserit nomen Domini Dei sui frustra.
8 Memento, ut diem sabbati sanctifices.
9 Sex diebus operaberis et facies omnia opera tua;
10 septimus autem dies sabbatum Domino Deo tuo est; non facies omne opus tu et filius tuus et filia tua, servus tuus et ancilla tua, iumentum tuum et advena, qui est intra portas tuas.
11 Sex enim diebus fecit Dominus caelum et terram et mare et omnia, quae in eis sunt, et requievit in die septimo; idcirco benedixit Dominus diei sabbati et sanctificavit eum.
12 Honora patrem tuum et matrem tuam, ut sis longaevus super terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dabit tibi.
13 Non occides.
14 Non moechaberis.
15 Non furtum facies.
16 Non loqueris contra proximum tuum falsum testimonium.
17 Non concupisces domum proximi tui: non desiderabis uxorem eius, non servum, non ancillam, non bovem, non asinum nec omnia, quae illius sunt ”.

 

Dt 4:1-2, 6-8

Moses said to the people:
"Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees
which I am teaching you to observe,
that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land
which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
In your observance of the commandments of the LORD, your God,
which I enjoin upon you,
you shall not add to what I command you nor subtract from it.
Observe them carefully,
for thus will you give evidence
of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations,
who will hear of all these statutes and say,
‘This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.'
For what great nation is there
that has gods so close to it as the LORD, our God, is to us
whenever we call upon him?
Or what great nation has statutes and decrees
that are as just as this whole law
which I am setting before you today?"

LIBER DEUTERONOMII 4

1 Et nunc, Israel, audi praecepta et iudicia, quae ego doceo vos, ut facientes ea vivatis et ingredientes possideatis terram, quam Dominus, Deus patrum vestrorum, daturus est vobis.
2 Non addetis ad verbum, quod vobis loquor, neque auferetis ex eo; custodite mandata Domini Dei vestri, quae ego praecipio vobis.

6 et observaretis et impleretis opere. Haec est enim vestra sapientia et intellectus coram populis, ut audientes universa praecepta haec dicant: “En populus sapiens et intellegens, gens magna haec!”.
7 Quae est enim alia natio tam grandis, quae habeat deos appropinquantes sibi, sicut Dominus Deus noster adest cunctis obsecrationibus nostris?
8 Et quae est alia gens sic inclita, ut habeat praecepta iustaque iudicia, sicut est universa lex haec, quam ego proponam hodie ante oculos vestros?



The 10 Commandments As a List

 

I    "I am the Lord your God, you shall not have other gods before me."

 

II    "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain."

 

III    "Remember to keep holy the Lord's day."

 

IV    "Honor your father and your mother."

 

V    "You shall not kill"

 

VI    "You shall not commit adultery."

 

VII    "You shall not steal."

 

VIII   "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor"

 

 

IX    "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife."

 

X    "You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor."